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Your editorial of April 1, 2004 titled "No Running Away" does your readers a great disservice. You have done exactly what the Chancellor refused to do--pass judgment on the Bell Award controversy before the presentation of research findings and debate. You have acted as if you knew a good deal about Cornelia Spencer's history, Reconstruction, and what the signatories of the letter to the Chancellor want to do about the Bell Award. You know virtually nothing about these things, and your arrogance will have the effect of pre-empting, not encouraging, dialogue.
As one of the original signatories to the letter to the Chancellor, I suggest that you make a commitment to promote research and dialogue, rather than trying to prejudge the outcome of this controversy. Have a little humility. Learn something. Then take a stand.
Our campaign aims to open up dialogue about Spencer's history and the consequences of naming an award for women in her honor. We, of all people, do not want to eliminate Spencer from memory. It is the university that has censored Spencer's history of white supremacy and the history of the university during Reconstruction. Moreover, this is a pattern. Look at the plaque on Saunders Hall that omits the fact that he was the leader of the KKK during Reconstruction and a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees when Spencer rang the Bell in 1875.
Finally, some of the history presented in your editorial sounds strikingly similar to white supremacist propaganda from the Reconstruction era, e.g. the Republican administration had to be overthrown because they were "extremely corrupt and inept." This was the typical excuse white supremacists used to justify their terror campaign against the biracial Republican coalition. Where is your evidence?
Yonni Chapman
History grad student
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